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Most owners manuals seem to define short trip as anything under 10-15 miles, depending on the age and brand of car and who wrote the owners manual, they include repeated short trips as part of the severe service where you need to change your oil at 3,000 miles instead of the normal 7,500 miles and where you figure everything is going to wear twice as fast.
For me the first 3 miles of my 4 mile trip to work my engine temp is still low.
The last time I bought 0w30 oil it said right on the bottle that it was safe for use in engines that call for 5w30 and 10w30 oil and the 0w part is only stating the thickness at 32F, the 2nd number, the 30 is the thickness warmed up and that is the number it seems like you should pay attention to if you have issues with your engine using oil.
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